History Matters

Venue: The Homecoming Centre of the District Six Museum, 15 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Date: Tuesday 4 November 2008 Time: 17h30 for 18h00 RSVP publishing@hsrc.ac.za or call 021 4668028 Guest Speaker: Professor Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape All welcome. Refreshments will be served. Copies of the book will be available for sale. Information [...]

The HSRC has just released a report on its findings of the causes of the outbreak of xenophobic violence that occurred in May 2008. The report also addresses the lessons that need to be learnt from this terrible period in our nation’s history. As with all of HSRC’s content, the report is available for free [...]

The provision of universal access to healthcare, a right enshrined in the South African Constitution, is the responsibility of government. Although much progress has been made towards the creation of a national health system which makes ‘access to health for all’ a reality, much remains to be done. As a means to facilitate debate on [...]